Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA

CEO
Equality AI

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Harry Caulfield, PhD

Biological and Biomedical Data Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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SPEAKERS

Sanjiv Bhatia, PhD

Professor and Director of Graduate Computer Science Programs
University of Missouri St. Louis

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Joel Burken, PhD

Distinguished Curators’ Professor and Chair
John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Engineering
Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Petruța Caragea, PhD

Professor of Statistics
Iowa State University

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Jiwoong Choi, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine
University of Kansas School of Medicine

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Martina Clarke, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Informatics
University of Nebraska Omaha

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Mark Clements, MD, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Children’s Mercy

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Sharlee Climer, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Missouri – St. Louis

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Stacy Farr, PhD, MPH

Director of CV Outcomes Research
Saint Luke’s Health System

Co-Director, Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality (HI-IQ) and Kansas City Quality & Value Innovation Consortium (KC QVIC)

Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical & Health Informatics
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

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Paul de Figueiredo, PhD

NextGen Precision Health Endowed Professor
Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri

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Andrea Gaedigk, PhD, MS

Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Mercy Research Institute

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Emily Haas

Director of Programs
BioNexus KC

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Timothy Haithcoat, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professor: Geospatial Informatics
MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics
Data Science and Analytics Program
University of Missouri

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Harlen Hays, MPH

Director of Research Analytics, Division of Insights and Engagement
Cardinal Health, Inc.

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Mark Hoffman, PhD

Chief Research Information Officer
Children’s Mercy

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Justin Hutchison, PhD

Ernest C. Pogge Chair’s Council Assistant Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department
University of Kansas

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Lindsey Jarrett, PhD

Vice President of Ethical AI Services
Center for Practical Bioethics

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Joshua Koni, MS
Data Science Research Associate
Children’s Mercy Research Institute

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Yugyung (Yugi) Lee, PhD

Professor of Computer Science
University of Missouri Kansas City

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J. Steven Leeder, PharmD, PhD

Marion Merrell Dow Endowed Chair in Pediatric Precision Therapeutics
Children’s Mercy

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Marc Libault, PhD

Professor, Division of Plant Science and Technology
University of Missouri-Columbia

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Sanzhen Liu, PhD

Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University

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Raj Logan, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Affiliate, Biomedical Engineering
Wichita State University

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Katya Mack, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Biomedical Data Scientist
University of Kansas

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Elebeoba May, PhD

Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Dana Nayduch, PhD

Research Leader, Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS)

Adjunct faculty, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University

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Amit Noheria, MBBS, SM

Director, Program for AI & Research in Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
University of Kansas Medical Center

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Gayla Olbricht, PhD

Associate Professor of Statistics
Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Dong Pei, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics & Data Science
University of Kansas Medical Center

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Irina Pushel, PhD

Senior Bioinformatic Scientist
Children’s Mercy Research Institute

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Dennis Ridenour

President and CEO
BioNexus KC

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Joe Shaffer, PhD

Assistant Professor, College of Biosciences
Kansas City University

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Scott Swain, PhD, MPH

Director of Regulatory Science and Real-world Evidence
Cardinal Health

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Theodore White, PhD

Division Director and Marion Merrell Dow Endowed Professor
University of Missouri Kansas City

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